The role of religious and secular rituals in the mediation of conflicting goals and the socialization of students into harmonious unity is analyzed in the context of a Catholic high school in the Midwest. Data were gathered by a participant-observer who attended classes and extracurricular activities, conducted formal interviews, and informally observed school life throughout the building. Two rituals were examined: the first all-school mass of the 1981-82 school year and the homecoming spirit...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catholic Schools, Competition, Conflict Resolution, Educational Anthropology,...
This paper examines existing research regarding the problem of school dropouts. It examines the historical context of the problem and discusses current definitions and methods for identifying dropout characteristics and computing dropout rates. Few incentives exist for accurate record-keeping on dropouts. School finances are often linked to attendance reports, a circumstance that creates a conflict of interest for schools and administrators. Also, the varied methods districts use to determine...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Role, Data Collection, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout...
This special issue was developed by the Asian-South Pacific Bureau for Adult Education (ASPBAE) in preparation for Unesco's fourth international conference on adult education. A section on "Literacy--A Great Challenge and Important Debate" includes "Why Literacy? (Paul Fordham); "Cooperating or Campaigning for Literacy" (Heribert Hinzen, Jakob Horn, Wolfgang Leumer, Rolf Niemann); comments from Sri Lanka (W. M. K. Wijetunga), Bangladesh (Rezaul Haque), Indonesia (Pepep...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Community...
Leaders of nascent democracies, such as Lithuania, quickly understood that effective civic education is indispensable to the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of their institutions of government and civil society. They readily turned to civic educators in the United States, the world's oldest democracy, for advice about how to prepare children to be competent citizens. Interactions of U.S. civic educators with educators in newer democracies have stimulated renewal and reform of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational...
This is an examination of the first two years of this school and community project for abused and neglected children. The program was one of three federally funded demonstration projects designed to serve as a guideline for establishing child abuse and child neglect programs on a national scale. The purposes of the program were: early identification of children who manifested symptoms of abuse or neglect, evaluation of the most appropriate methods for prevention of child abuse or neglect,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Role, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Community Health Services,...
This annotated bibliography contains 321 references to materials related to sex role socialization in young children. Included are: (1) general references; (2) references on the influence of media, school, and family; and (3) references on curriculum materials. Prepared in conjunction with "Sex Role Socialization in Early Childhood," a paper reviewing theory and research related to the sex role socialization of young children, this bibliography provides annotations for all references...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education, Family Influence,...
The cost factors involved in the New Designs for the Comprehensive High School project were compared with the traditional operating costs of a comprehensive high school in the United States. The high school cost analysis was based on expenditure profiles developed by the Educational Research Service (ERS). ERS data were manipulated to derive an estimated cost per high school pupil using the 1.30 secondary/elementary ratio. Typical costs were used in the development of four different scenarios...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cost Estimates, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Finance,...
Given the prevalence of adolescent mental health issues and the impact they have on adolescent development and school success, school counselors are challenged to provide appropriate prevention and intervention services. Yet the sufficiency of school counselor training for these challenges is unclear. Qualitative procedures were used to examine eight secondary school counselors' preparation to recognize and respond to adolescent mental health issues. Results indicate beneficial aspects of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Statistical Analysis, School Counselors, Mental Health, Prevention, Intervention,...
Nine high schools selected at random from 62 schools in Northeastern Indiana participated in this study to determine where high school students get their ideas about marriage and family living. Students answered a questionnaire consisting of 24 items ranging in nature from dating and knowledge of the opposite sex through engagement to marriage and family living. For each item, students marked the source of knowledge as parents, school, church, peer group, reading, or others. A figure of twenty...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Church Role, Dating (Social), Family Life Education, Family Relationship, Information...
The following papers are included: "Technological Literacy: What? Why? For Whom?" (Kranzberg); "Techniliterate vs. Technilliterate (There's an L of a Difference)" (Stone); "International Perspectives on Technological Literacy" (Dyrenfurth); "Technology and the Liberal Arts: Are We Producing Technopeasants?" (Brockway); "Study on the Justification of Technology Education as General Education" (Chang); "A Case for Technological Literacy"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Needs Assessment,...
When "technology" is used in reference to education today, the term is most often thought of as being synonymous with computers. In the past, however, the term "educational technology" also included other apparatus, either to disseminate information in a classroom, e.g., the overhead projector, or to transmit information some distance, such as with radio or television (Benenson, 2000; Saettler, 1990). While the importance of computers both in education and in everyday life...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Distance Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology,...
American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker, in testimony presented to a joint meeting of congressional subcommittees, tells why early childhood education programs should be sponsored by public education agencies rather than private day care centers. Main supporting reasons are: schools are available throughout the country; school systems have become adept at administering large, complicated federal programs; public schools are better equipped to contribute to the intellectual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Political Issues, Public...
The Council of Deans of the Schools of Education in the Wisconsin State Universities undertook to (1) identify emerging roles and functions of campus laboratory schools, (2) establish roles and functions for laboratory schools operated by the Wisconsin State Universities, and (3) suggest steps for implementation of roles and functions. A review of the history of laboratory schools in the United States, a review of the functions of the Wisconsin State Universities' laboratory schools, and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Laboratory Schools, School Role, Status, Surveys, Teacher Education, Young, B. J.
This document contains six papers about and from a roundtable discussion of poverty alleviation, work, and adult learning. The "Introduction" (Madhu Singh) presents an overview of the roundtable. "Work-Related Adult Education: Challenges and Possibilities in Poverty Areas" (Enrique Pieck) describes work-related adult education strategies and argues that training alone is insufficient for poverty areas. Competence reform in Norway is examined in "The Future of Work and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Building Trades, Case Studies, Competence,...
The Design Group for the New Designs for the Comprehensive High School project used their first meeting to deliberate and make a keystone decision about the purpose and desired outcomes of the comprehensive high school. From a working paper by Pearce et al. (1991), the Design Group reviewed the history and current practices of aims and objectives for public schools as a way to look at possible learner outcomes. Keeping the 21st century as a target, the group interacted with a composite version...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Objectives,...
This report was written as part of the sponsor evaluation of the Educational Development Center (EDC) Open Education Follow Through Program under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. In this study four groups of adults (teachers, aides, administrators, and parents) who are involved with the growth and development of children in the EDC Follow Through program in Burlington, Vermont were interviewed. This report is divided into 11 chapters concerning the following: (a) an overview of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Community Role, Evaluation Methods,...
The function of qualitative research in education is examined, taking into account the curriculum development of one institution, the Escuela Normal Veracruzana, Jalapa (Mexico), which is one of the oldest teacher training colleges (dating from 1886) still functioning in Mexico. Although this academic institution never traditionally promoted the sort of research activities associated with the detailed analysis of data collected in fieldwork, educational ethnography and qualitative research are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Data Analysis, Educational Change, Educational History,...
There are two contemporary urban reform thrusts working in parallel, one being the move toward coordinated children's services through the public schools (full-service schooling), and the other a press toward the economic and social regeneration of poor neighborhoods. The interest in a much-broadened mission for the public school (toward coordinated children's and family services) has captured attention in American communities nationwide, and the approach is being tested with varying...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ancillary School Services, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This publication about moral education is a conversation between a university professor of religion and the chairman of a high school social studies department. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness and to help them reflect on the purpose, methods, and usefulness of a wide range of human endeavors. This conversation provides an analysis of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Ethical Instruction, Humanistic Education, Humanities, Interviews, Moral...
The success of the United States as a nation has depended on establishing a common language, loyalty, and culture. To achieve functional normalcy among our citizens there has been an ongoing process of single culture socialization carried out predominantly through systems of public schools. But whether it is necessary or desirable to establish a nonculturally differentiated mass by means of cultural conversion and absorption needs to be examined. In response to genuine cultural variety there is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, Biculturalism, Communication Problems, Cultural Education, Cultural...
This paper reviews and summarizes the current and projected status of education and employment, and their relatedness, for working women, and suggests avenues for improvement. It examines women's increasing role in the labor force and the social, economic, and demographic trends and projections relevant to that role. In evaluating the impact on women of existing programs of worker education and training, the paper assesses federal, local, private, and union offerings for working women. After...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Demography, Economic Status,...
Several ways in which the culture of the home in a traditional society differs from the culture of the school, as well as obstacles to efforts to coordinate school and home, are identified prior to a discussion of the educational function of the home and functions of the school. It is pointed out that, whereas in traditional societies education has been a function of the home, the school, through its power, authority, knowledge and professionalism, dominates the relationship between the home...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Coordination, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Youth, Early...
This volume contains a series of papers written for a symposium entitled "Adult Education and Allocation Policy in Sweden." Intended to provide a broader framework for analyzing allocation policy in adult education, the first paper is organized around the assumption that the effects of allocation policy both on participants and society are greatly determined by institutional roles defining who gets recruited to what kind of adult education and to what extent different programs and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Budgeting, Dropouts, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy,...
The purpose of this paper is to assist vocational educators at all levels as they make long-range plans and policies that have an impact on vocational education programs and their relationship to worker productivity. In the first section a study of worker productivity analyzes trends and then measures and analyzes the determinants of productivity. The three main inputs--physical capital, natural resources, and labor--are briefly discussed. Other factors that influence the mix of inputs are also...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Education Work Relationship, Human Capital, Job Enrichment, Management by Objectives,...
THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: The research summarized here suggests that: Children learn more than academic content from their school experiences, especially how to behave in nonfamily groups. Congruence between the school and community can contribute significantly to a sense of community among both adults and youth, but at some sacrifice in academic quality. The prominence of peer social interaction in schools can displace the academic function of schools, especially at the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Educational Research, Elementary...
This digest focuses on school health education, its current status, and what the future holds for health education in the elementary and secondary schools. School health education is defined and its history briefly sketched. The importance of health education is discussed as well as who should teach health education classes. Suggestions are also made for future efforts in school health education. A bibliography of references is included. (JD)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Habit Formation, Health...
This resource book was developed to provide information that state and local leaders can use to stimulate discussion of the problem of students at risk and support the planning of initiatives that address the problem. An overview defines students at risk, summarizes the content of the book, and lists recent reports and publications on the problem of students at risk. Section I presents eight sets of data, summarizing national and state data on the changing nature of students attending the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delinquency, Drinking, Dropouts, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education, High...
A program training model used at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to prepare special education graduate and undergraduate students to work with paraprofessionals is described. Topics addressed include the following: (1) improvement of instruction and services to handicapped students through use of paraprofessionals; (2) significant role of paraprofessionals in delivery of instructional activities; (3) role of the special educator as instructional manager; (4) need for adequate preservice,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional...
Adult education in the United States is again beginning to emerge as a potentially important dimension of national policy as a way to retrain the work force to be internationally competitive. Skepticism has been expressed about what "retraining" actually means. Federal government initiatives for adult and continuing education have been few and far between, so the dynamic that animates continuing education programs is not found at the federal level. Workplace continuing education shows...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Educational History, Educational Objectives,...
This Commission for Higher Education document concerns the approval of the Policy for Delivering Degree Programs Through Distance Education Technology. It opens with the staff recommendation that the Commission approve the Policy, considering the recent technological developments altering distance education environments. The background information section details how both "producers" and "consumers" of instruction are affected by these changes. Campuses are now in positions...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Degrees (Academic), Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Technology,...
This paper reports on a longitudinal study with results drawn from 7 years of data on a group of young women (N=42), following them from the ninth grade through the third year of college. The purpose of the study was to trace development of the participants' thinking about school, career, and women's roles while also tracking their grades, standardized test scores, and college admission data. This study was intended to help answer questions about the relationship between aspirations and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Career Development, Careers, Coeducation, College...
Over the past year, working in conjunction with the Workforce Strategy Center, the Center for an Urban Future has revisited CUNY to assess its progress as a workforce skills provider, performing a campus-by-campus survey of all 17 undergraduate institutions, reviewing program material and course offerings, and conducting more than 70 interviews with campus administrators and experts in the field. This report offers both a more comprehensive review of CUNY's current workforce efforts, and a look...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Job Training, Futures (of Society), State Colleges, School Role, Labor Force...
The war has affected the conduct of education in France perhaps more than in either England or Germany. For the first two years the demands at the front tended to subordinate all other thought and activities to the one great purpose. More recently the educational literature of France indicates that the war has had the effect of provoking considerable questioning and dissatisfaction with the existing systems of education. Radical changes have not yet taken place in educational administration or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries,...
Many low-income young people are not reaching important milestones for success (for example, completing a program or graduating from school on time). But the social-service organizations and schools that serve them often struggle to identify who is at more or less risk. These institutions often either over- or underestimate risk, missing opportunities to intervene with those who need more help or inefficiently providing services to those who do not need them. Most "early warning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Low Income Groups, At Risk Students, Youth Programs, School Role, College Role,...
By acquiring health-related knowledge, values, skills, and practices, children can be empowered to pursue a healthy life and to work as change agents for community health. This report of the WHO Expert Committee on Comprehensive School Health Education and Promotion reviews the global state of school health; identifies opportunities for and barriers to strengthening school health programs at international, regional, district, and local levels; and makes recommendations to strengthen school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Child Health, Children, Comprehensive...
This study looks beyond the individuals who drop out to determine the role of schools in the dropout process. It presents a profile of dropouts including the following characteristics: (1) low socioeconomic status, (2) poor school performances, and (3) in-school delinquency. It also addresses the reasons students give for dropping out. The data provide a picture of dropouts very close to that of non-college-bound adolescents who complete high school. Institutional characteristics seem to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, High Schools,...
A survey of state legislators was conducted in 1981 by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education to determine state legislators' views about vocational education and its outcomes; their views of what vocational education should be doing and how it could be improved; and their perceptions about federal and state roles relative to vocational education. A sample of 209 NCSL members were surveyed, with a 45 percent response....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Attitudes, Educational Benefits, Educational Finance, Educational Needs,...
School-age child care is part of an array of services that young children may need and that can be appropriately included under the category of early childhood programs. At the federal, state, and local levels, schools are emerging as a focus for school-age care policy and program initiatives. This trend is a reflection of a growing pressure for more responsive schools. However, school boards are reluctant participants. Concern exists about fiscal liability if financing can't be assured. It is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict, Delivery Systems, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Financial...
The subproject on world citizen responsibility, part of a larger project on social development and training, is summarized. Major objectives of the subproject are the following: (1) to construct, adapt, and test measuring methods to map the social development of student ideas and attitudes to foreign peoples and international relations; (2) to map features of age development; and (3) to explore possibilities for applying educational influence to promote understanding in the world community....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Cultural Images, Educational Research, Elementary...
This report investigates the educational philosophy programs related to the multicultural population of Toronto. Two fundamental goals for the Toronto Board of Education are to provide equal educational opportunities to all children, and to do so without loss of the child's personal identity and cultural integrity. The work force provides recommendations on eight issues related to multicultural, multiracial education including (1) English as a second language, (2) educational opportunity...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Education, Cultural Pluralism,...
As the proceedings from a 2005 joint seminar between U.S. and United Kingdom service-learning and citizenship education experts and practitioners, this report presents information on the similar challenges both countries face in promoting and implementing political literacy and citizenship education programs. The seminar was entitled "Political Literacy and Service Learning: The Role of Schools and Their Communities" and was held in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12-15, 2005....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Service Learning, School Role, Politics, Literacy,...
This publication contains 36 short essays on the reauthorization of the National and Community Service Act. It begins with two introductory papers: "Visions of Service: The Future of the National and Community Service Act" (Sagawa, Halperin) and "Historical Background: An Overview" (Sagawa). Section I, Why Service?, contains 15 essays: "A Mandate for Liberty" (Barber); "The Challenge of Community Building" (Dirks); "Large-Scale Community Service: Two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility,...
This report provides information about the schooling of over three million students in approximately 10,000 schools in Australia's eight states and territories during 1991. Chapter 1 describes the Australian Education Council and offers a national overview of schooling in Australia including the structure of schooling and how to achieve and support national goals. The chapter ends with 10 common and agreed national goals for schooling in Australia. The remaining eight chapters present...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annual Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality,...
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Topics: General, Education, Education / Teaching, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary...
The Office of National Drug Control policy has put together this guide to assist educators, parents, and community leaders in determining whether student drug testing is appropriate for their schools. The aim is to provide anyone considering a drug-testing program in his or her community with a broad understanding of the issue and solid, up-to-date information on which to base a decision. The guide explains, generally, what drug testing is all about, who pays for it, who does the testing, what...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Drug Use Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Illegal Drug Use, Models, Program...
Migration has been an essential part of American life and a contributing factor to the urbanization of its cities. The pages of history are filled with the record of the movement of people away from a lesser toward a greater opportunity and the search for security and happiness in some more favorable environment. There are two large groups of migrants in America today, the agricultural migrants who follow the crops, and the industrial migrants who come to the city seeking new opportunities. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Migrant Education, Migration, Immigrants, Adult Education, Trend Analysis,...
This volume contains selected papers from the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education that was devoted to the essential theme "Educational Excellence for All." In various ways, each of these papers from that conference addresses this theme in a significant way. The following papers are included: (1) "Education in the Year 2000: 28th Charles W. Hunt Lecture" (Ernest W. Boyer); (2) "The Mission of Colleges of Education" (Bill...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Beginning Teachers, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Trends,...
This book describes "The Learning Community," a minischool that was founded in 1972 by five teachers as an alternative program within a large urban high school in Astoria, New York. The Learning Community included 150 high school juniors and seniors and 6 teachers. The book overviews the development of the minischool, beginning with the first teachers' meeting to address the school's philosophy; the strategies used to promote positive teacher-student relationships; and decisions made...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational...
In this statement the Commission criticizes the President's distinction between de jure and de facto racial segregation, pointing out that many present situations of de facto segregation are the result of previous legal action, such as decisions on school boundary lines, racial zoning ordinances and judicial enforcement of racially restrictive covenants. The Commission also states its opposition to a return to litigation as a means of enforcing desegregation rather than administrative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bus Transportation, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation,...
In 1990, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Forum was established to function as a design team to consider the critical features of a professional development school (PDS) and the important principles which should be taken into account in creating and field testing the PDS concept. This report emerged from the design team's deliberations. Establishing professional development schools is a strategy for transforming both teacher education programs and schools in response to the crisis in American...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Community Involvement, Educational Change,...
